House of Peers
Example Sentences
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A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Older heads, especially in the House of Peers, may shake, do shake.
From Time Magazine Archive
A moment later General Sir Brian Horrocks, Black Rod himself, knocked three times on their lobby door and, bowing, commanded "this honorable House to wait upon Her Majesty immediately in the House of Peers."
From Time Magazine Archive
Since 1903 he has been President of the House of Peers, but that is relatively unimportant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, sir—Mr. Larkin—I can hardly believe, sir—you can't mean, or think it possible, sir, that I should lend myself to a deception, and—and sit in the House of Peers by a fraud, sir!
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
